What Are the Determining Factors of a Patient's Prognosis When

question 23

Multiple Choice

What are the determining factors of a patient's prognosis when diagnosed with metastatic brain disease?
1) Age of the individual
2) Number of metastatic lesions present
3) Primary type of malignant disease

• A) 1 and 2 only
• B) 1 and 3 only
• C) 2 and 3 only
• D) 1, 2, and 3

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Definitions:

Individual Data Elements

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Sample Variance

A measure of the dispersion or variability in a sample data set, calculated as the average squared deviation of each number from the mean of the data set.

Negative

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